Burundi will have to wait longer to join the Southern African Development Community (SADC) after a ministerial meeting ruled out against immediate admission of the country to the 15-member regional bloc.
Tanzania’s Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation Minister Augustine Mahiga said Burundi’s application to join the bloc was assessed by Inter-State Politics and Diplomacy Committee of SADC’s Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation, which convened in Dar es Salaam on February 24, 2017.
